Weird Links only on front page

Hey Guys & Gals,

Weird stuff happening on my forum (Aussie V8 | Holden - Ford | Australian V8 Engine Community)

On the front page most of the links work fine, but the links to the threads don't function as prescribed!

If you copy the link to the thread its looks ok, but if you click on it, the rewrite is all screwy and it shows a bit of the path to my forum!

When in the forum (looking at the list of threads) if you click one of those, it seems to work fine! I'm really puzzled by this, its only happened since I've installed vbseo so I'm guessing its a rewrite rule problem. But after taking my users through a month of pain when I upgraded the forum to vb4, I really don't want to break anything else.

Any suggestions?

p.s. I've also submitted a ticket, but I thought I'd get some feedback from the "collective" here on the forums as well.

As MErt suggest via ticket, it looks like your path is set incorrectly in your webserver config, thus it's adding it to your urls.

I guess I'm strugling with the idea that it has been workingfor 5 years, but soon after I install vbseo it breaks....

Now I'm not saying you are incorrect but maybe if at all possible I can show you my vhost config?

vb uses all relative paths "file.php". When installing vbseo, there are multiple levels, ie /forum/thread-123/ that files referenced to it as 'file.php' would 404 as they are not physically in the forum/thread-123/ folder. As such, the base directive is added into the codebase for vbseo.

You will need consult your httpd.conf file and check for missing trialing slashes, etc

Hey.

Looking further into this, it seems if -new-post.html is appended to the url, the path breaks.

i.e. broken
http://www.aussiev8.com.au/members-l...-new-post.html

not broken.
http://www.aussiev8.com.au/members-l...000-dream.html


so -new-post.html seems to be causing havoc. Do you still think its got to do with the vhost config?

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName aussiev8.com.au
ServerAlias Aussie V8 | Holden - Ford | Australian V8 Engine Community

DocumentRoot /srv/aussiev8/forum/current/

<Directory /srv/aussiev8/forum/current/>
Options -ExecCGI -Includes +FollowSymlinks MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog /srv/aussiev8/logs/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel debug
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /srv/aussiev8/logs/access.log combined
ErrorLog /srv/aussiev8/logs/error.log
</VirtualHost>

Can you see anything strange in there?

You may have a conflicting rule soemwhere that is matching that new-post string.

Try changing your forum rewrite rules (click on the advanced tab) and change -new-post so something else, like -newp or -npost, etc that likely won't match anything else. These urls are only used for logged in users, so it doesn't have to be anything 'seo worthy'.

thanks Brian, I'll give this a go!

And very true, at least google isn't looking at that url.